Diachronic Studies on Information Structure : Language Acquisition and Change.
Title:
Diachronic Studies on Information Structure : Language Acquisition and Change.
Author:
Ferraresi, Gisella.
ISBN:
9783110227475
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Series:
Language, Context and Cognition ; v.10
Language, Context and Cognition
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Role of Information Structure in Language Change: Introductory Remarks -- Information Structure, Constituent Order, and Casein Warihío -- The Information Structure of OVS in Vedic -- Information Packaging and the Rise of Clitic Doubling in the History of Spanish -- Cue-based Acquisition and Information Structure Drift in Diachronic Language Development -- Discourse and Syntax in Linguistic Change: Decline of Postverbal Topical Subjects in Serbo-Croat -- Prosody, Information Structure and Word Order Changes in Portuguese -- The Development of V-to-C-Movement in the West Germanic and Romance Languages -- Evidence for Two Types of Focus Positions in Old High German -- Backmatter.
Abstract:
Human languages are very economical systems of knowledge, which usually contribute to the formation and interpretation of an utterance only what cannot be supplied by other conceptual systems. Thus, conceptual underspecification and context-dependence are essential properties, which vary from one particular language to the next in dependence on the structural make-up a given language belongs to. The book series "Language, Context and Cognition" explores the essential properties of natural languages in focusing on their lexical entries, on the interaction of their grammatical subsystems as well as on the text production methods, from both synchronic and diachronic viewpoints. Research on the conceptual underspecification of language requires close cooperation of linguists with researchers in cognitive and neuroscience, with phoneticians, logicians and with the experts of pragmatic and experimental disciplines, but it also needs interdisciplinary cooperation with students of non-linguistic conceptual systems. Editorial board (vol. 10 onwards) Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universität des Saarlandes) Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Lühr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universität Leipzig).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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